The Priests: Singers, World-Record Holders, Priests
Meet The Priests…
After 30 years of singing together, brothers, Fr Eugene and Fr Martin O’Hagan, along with their friend and colleague Fr David Delargy, came together and recorded their debut album — ‘The Priests’ — with Sony Music.
The album sold 3 million copies worldwide securing them a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest-selling classical of all time.
Ten years later, their career has led to three further albums and tours and across the world including performances for the Irish President, the Royal Family. They even shared a stage with Pope Benedict XIV in London’s Hyde Park to a live audience of 80,000 and to a global audience of millions on TV.
The crazy part of this is that through all of this time, they have remained faithful to their parishes and daily duties as Priests.
In this week’s episode, we chat about what it was like to grow up together, what it’s like to juggle the priesthood alongside being world-famous musicians and how to keep our ego in check.
All this and more coming up on today’s show.
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Guest Information For The Priests:
Fr Eugene:
Book: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco......’a medieval whodunnit with style’.
Quote: “In my humble but correct opinion”.......’uttered by a Dutch priest who taught at a Roman theological college in my time who was both charming and disarming and had a wonderful sense of humour and didn’t suffer fools gladly’.
Fr David:
Book: Wild Swans by Jung Chang ‘recounts the stories of three generations of Chinese women over a 100 year period’.
Quote: "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fr Martin:
Book: The Goldfinch
Quote: ‘You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind’.
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- Matt
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